Lenz, Oskar, 1848-1925
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Name (Latin)
Lenz, Oskar, 1848-1925
Other forms of name
Lenz, Heinrich Oskar, 1848-1925
Lenz, Hermann Heinrich Oskar, 1848-1925
Lenz, Oscar, 1848-1925
Date of birth
1848-04-13
Date of death
1925-03-02
Field of activity
College teaching
Ethnology
Geography
Geology
Mineralogy
Scientific expeditions
Universities and colleges--Administration
Occupation
College teachers
Ethnologists
Explorers
Geographers
Geologists
Mineralogists
College administrators
Associated Language
ger
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Lenz, Oskar; gender: male; other names: Lenz, Hermann-Heinrich-Oscar; Lenz, Hermann-Heinrich-Oskar; Lenz, Oscar; Lenz, Hermann Heinrich Oscar; Lenz, Hermann Heinrich Oskar; Lenz, Heinrich Oskar; Lenz, Heinrich Oscar; life dates: 1848-1925; born: Leipzig; died: Sooss near Baden (Lower Austria); occupations: geologist, geographer, explorer ( (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, March 9, 2020) )
- Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), accessed online March 9, 2020:Bd. 2, page 450 (Lenz, Oskar, Hofrat, Dr. phil., university professor (retired); born 13 April 1848, Leipzig; lives in Baden-Sooss, near Vienna)
- German Wikipedia, March 9, 2020 (Oskar Lenz (also Heinrich Oskar Lenz) (born 13 April 1848 in Leipzig; died 2 March 1925 in Sooss); German-Austrian explorer of Africa, mineralogist and geologist)
- Lenz, Oskar. "Specielle Darstellung der geologischen Verhältnisse Ostgrönlands," in Deutsche Nordpolar-Expedition (2nd : 1869-1870). Die Zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt in den Jahren 1869 und 1870 unter Führung des Kapitän Karl Koldewey, 1873-1874, v. 2, pages 481-496:page 481 (in caption: Bearbeitet von Oskar Lenz in Wien)
- Vávra. "Lenz, Oskar (1848-1925), Geograph, Geologe und Ethnograph," in Österreichisches biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, Bd. 5 (Lfg. 22, 1970), accessed online March 9, 2020:page 140 (Lenz, Oskar (1848-1925), geographer, geologist and ethnographer; born Leipzig, 13. 4. 1848; died Soos (Lower Austria), 2. 3. 1925; studied at Universität Leipzig, Dr. phil. 1870; from 1872 active as geologist at the Geolog. Reichsanstalt in Vienna; 1874-1877, took part in scientific expedition in Gabon for the German-African Society, then in 1879-1881, in an expedition from Tangier across the Atlas Mountains through the Sahara and Sudan, also visiting Timbuctoo; headed the Austrian Congo expedition in 1885-1887, crossing Africa from West to East; in 1887, appointed professor of geography at the German University of Prague; 1892/1893, dean; 1902/1903 rector; retired 1909)
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